The Hub adds options and never takes anything away, which means switching it off is simple and safe. This article explains your three ways to back out, what stays in place and what the Hub keeps on your site.
Three ways to back out, in increasing order:
- Untick Consolidate plugin menus in Settings and press Save Settings. Every plugin gets its own top level sidebar menu back immediately and the Hub stays installed.
- Tick Keep at top level for specific plugins, leaving consolidation on for the rest.
- Deactivate ResultsAiX Hub from your Plugins screen. Every menu goes back to standard WordPress behaviour.
The Three-Level Off-Switch card in Settings lists the same three steps.
Step by step: deactivate the Hub:
- In WordPress go to Plugins, then Installed Plugins.
- Find ResultsAiX Hub and click Deactivate.
- Your ResultsAiX plugins keep running with their own menus, settings and licences.
What deactivating does not do:
It does not touch any other plugin. Every ResultsAiX plugin works on its own, keeps its own licence, its own settings and its own data, and never depended on the Hub to run. Nothing you set up inside another plugin changes, and any colour scheme you set for your plugins stays as it is.
What switching off does:
The Hub takes its own background jobs off the schedule: the daily refresh, the hourly Overview count, any Overview count waiting to run, and the linked-site send. Nothing runs while the Hub is off. Switch it back on and every job is scheduled again on its first page load.
Linked sites while the Hub is off:
If this site is shared with a main Hub, the main Hub cannot read it while the Hub here is switched off, and says so on its Overview. If this site sends its numbers to a main Hub, sending stops until you switch the Hub back on.
Is anything deleted?
No. The Hub has no uninstall routine, so deactivating leaves everything in place: the two Hub tables and their contents, your menu and appearance choices, your linked sites, your saved Standard or PRO preference, and the saved catalogue. Reactivate later and you land back exactly where you were.
What the Hub stores:
- Two database tables, one for the shared weekly statistics and one for the record of licence, update and switch on actions
- A handful of site options: menu consolidation, the RWK AI Bots sidebar switch, your per plugin overrides, the colour scheme settings, your linked sites and their secrets, and internal version markers
- One preference per user for the Standard or PRO bot tier
- Short lived saved copies of the product catalogue, the Overview's numbers, linked sites' answers and the Hub's own update check
- Scheduled background jobs: the daily refresh, the hourly Overview count, and, only when this site sends to a main Hub, a send every ten minutes
Your bot grid layout, meaning favourites, hidden cards and the chosen filter, and the date range you last picked on the Overview, are not in that list. They live in your browser, so clearing your browser data resets them and nothing on the server changes.
A real example:
Jamie wants to test whether a slow admin page is caused by the Hub. Jamie deactivates ResultsAiX Hub on yoursite.com, checks the page, and finds the Hub was not the cause. Jamie reactivates it: the Overview, the consolidated menu, the linked members site and the Developer Dark colour scheme are all exactly as before.
Removing the plugin files:
If you delete the Hub from the Plugins screen, WordPress removes its files. The tables and options above stay in the database, which is the safe default: reinstalling later brings your settings back rather than starting from scratch.
Switching it back on:
- In WordPress go to Plugins, then Installed Plugins.
- Click Activate under ResultsAiX Hub.
- Open the Overview. The Hub schedules its jobs again and counts your numbers.
Tips:
- Testing a problem? Deactivate, test, reactivate: nothing is lost.
- If you only want a tidier sidebar back, untick consolidation instead of switching the Hub off.